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Theater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . . The endless elasticity of Shakespeare can be stretched to fit any variety of settings: a pre-gentrification West Side, an animated African savannah…
Music Review By Ron Fassler . . . It's hard to believe that Kelli O'Hara, an ingenue's ingenue if there ever was one, first made her Broadway debut close to twenty-five years ago. Since then…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . All is right with the world when Marilyn Maye is in town and performing in a small room packed with her fans. And at ninety-six, she still has the c…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . Shakespeare's Twelfth Night has been around for a bit, since 1604, so there is little more to be said about the text that hasn't been picked over by…
Theater review by Carole Di Tosti… If you had a chance to go back in time to change things, would you risk the potential danger and "bring weapons?"Â Adapting Derek Connelly's endearing…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Katie Gee Salisbury. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shi…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Picture the surprise gasp from the audience as the curtain rose on Our Town at its premiere in 1938. The sight of there being no scenery must have sho…
Theater review by Adam Cohen… "What are you going to see?" asks my daughter as I make my way towards Paper Mill Playhouse " a theater in Millburn, New Jersey she happens to love. "Jersey B…
Review by Marilyn Lester… Each year at the beginning of October, The New York Pops has a special cabaret at 54 Below to support the organization's significant educational program, PopsEd. …
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . David Cromer is one of the most in-demand directors in the theatre. With his choice of projects his for the asking, when a play arrives with his name atta…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . When I was a boy interested in musicals, the scores Anthony Newley wrote (with Leslie Bricusse) for Stop the World I Want to Get Off and The Roar…
Broadway's brightest stars are gathering for an unforgettable night to celebrate and raise funds to save The West Bank Cafe. On Tuesday, October 8th, the iconic restaurant and its famed down…
October 6, 2024 Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . It's big (well, not that big). It's gay (it's very gay). And if a log line like "Stacey woke up in some b*tch ass Music Man…
Theater Review by Stuart Miller… In the middle of "Yellow Face," David Henry Hwang's funny but pointed look at ethnic identity and bias in America, the character of David Henry Hwang empha…
October 5, 2024 Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you like a play that starts slowly and takes its time setting up characters and the world in which they live, then builds inexorably to…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Richard E. Grant. A Pocketful of Happiness: A Memoir. (Ne…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Ghosts can be scary. Ghosts can be troublemakers. Ghosts can be destructive. Witness the ones in Shakespeare's Hamlet, or Ibsen's Ghosts, or Brendo…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Jacob McNeal, celebrated American novelist and playwright, has a problem. He's trying to kill himself. Wait a minute, you say to yourself at the on…
Producers Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Kater Gordon announced today that the Olivier Award®-winning actor Andrew Scott will reprise his wildly acclaimed pe…
Here's exciting news about new music releases from Jane Monheit, Allyson Briggs and CelloVoci. Jane Monheit Jazz and adult contemporary vocalist Jane Monheit's new eponymous album, Jane Monh…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel… A Summer Sampling: Once Upon a Mattress, Job, Forbidden Broadway, and More! Before all hell breaks loose with a flood of new shows opening between October an…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . This past spring, song stylist Ann Kittredge released an album titled "Romantic Notions," her musings on the theme of love covering more than a …
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Alan Rickman. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman …
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . George Tabori's The Goldberg-Variations shifts swiftly between light and dark, serious and comical, while diffusing tension and disappointment with …
Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, written by Jenny Lyn Bader and directed by Ari Laura Kreith, will play at 59E59 from October 18 to November 10. The show stars Ella Dershowitz,…
